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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi is the Congress leader and has been representing the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency since 2019. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Election, Rahul Gandhi won the Wayanad seat by defeating Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate PP Suneer with a margin of 4,31,770 votes. However, Gandhi was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smriti Zubin Irani from his family's stronghold Amethi with a margin of 55,120 votes in the 2019 polls. Rahul Gandhi won three consecutive elections from Amethi in 2004, 2009 and 2014. He defeated Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidates Chandra Parkash Mishra Matiyari and Asheesh Shukla in the 2004 and 2009 polls respectively from Amethi. Rahul Gandhi again won the Amethi constituency in 2014 by defeating Smriti Zubin Irani with a margin of 1,07,903 votes. Gandhi was the president of the Congress party from 2017 to 2019.

Rahul Gandhi

Kamal Haasan, Rahul Gandhi meet in New Delhi, discuss political situation in Tamil Nadu
India | Jun 20, 2018, 06:15 PM IST
Kamal said that it was a 'formal courtesy meeting'.
'Your family & party ruined Kashmir', Kiren Rijiju hits back at Rahul Gandhi for 'opportunistic' remark against BJP
National | Jun 20, 2018, 10:51 AM IST
Hitting back at the Congress leader for his remarks against BJP, Rijiju today claimed that while Saradar Vallabh Bhai Patel solved problems of all other states, Kashmir fell into trouble after Rahul Gandhi's grandfather Jawahar Lal Nehru took over.
Child rights body issues notice to Rahul Gandhi over Dalit abuse video he shared on Twitter
India | Jun 20, 2018, 07:18 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi had tweeted about the incident tagging the video, and blamed the BJP and RSS for rising atrocities against backward classes.

'Opportunistic' BJP-PDP alliance set fire to J-K, cost India strategically: Rahul Gandhi
India | Jun 19, 2018, 08:10 PM IST
The three-year Jammu and Kashmir government, wracked by bitter political feuds and worsening security challenges, collapsed on Tuesday with the BJP pulling out of its alliance with the PDP setting the stage for yet another round of governor's rule.
'Have a long, healthy life': PM Modi extends birthday greetings to Rahul Gandhi
India | Jun 19, 2018, 11:46 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi has openly attacked PM Modi in the past months particularly during his campaign for state Assembly elections in Gujarat and Karnataka.
Rift in Akhilesh-Rahul bonhomie? Samajwadi Party chief opposes key role for Congress in anti-BJP alliance: Sources
National | Jun 19, 2018, 11:32 AM IST
While in both Uttrakhand and Madhya Pradesh, the incumbent government is BJP, the main opposition party remains Congress. In this scenario, an announcement to go solo by Samajwadi Party raises doubts about Akhilesh Yadav's intentions to maintain ties with Congress.

Rahul Gandhi expresses concern over attack on Gorakhpur doctor's brother, demands probe into 'laxity' in case
India | Jun 15, 2018, 09:40 PM IST
Jameel was shot at in Gorakhpur on Sunday night and is now admitted at the King George Medical University trauma centre in Lucknow.
Rahul Gandhi attacks BJP government's foreign policy over cancellation of Indian work visas by Maldives
India | Jun 14, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
Criticising the government, Rahul Gandhi said that the foreign policy of the country has become one about "photo ops" and "no agenda meetings".
Rahul Gandhi’s Iftar party: Congress president mocks PM Modi by terming his fitness video ‘bizarre, ridiculous'
India | Jun 14, 2018, 01:25 AM IST
"Did you see the PM's fitness video? It is ridiculous... I mean... It is bizarre... This is bankruptcy," Rahul Gandhi said as he poked fun at the video put out by the prime minister.

Jaitley lashes out at Congress & Rahul Gandhi, calls Party 'Ideologyless': Top 5 points
India | Jun 13, 2018, 10:40 PM IST
Taking to Facebook in a post titled, "Is Congress Becoming Ideologyless? Is Anti-Modism its only ideology?", Jaitley slammed the nearly 120-year-old party, saying that it has become 'ideologyless'.
Pranab Mukherjee, Manmohan Singh, prominent opposition leaders attend Rahul Gandhi's Iftar party
India | Jun 13, 2018, 10:25 PM IST
Mukherjee, whose acceptance of the RSS invite became a matter of big controversy, greeted those present at the function as he moved among the guests.
Pranab Mukherjee, Manmohan Singh, prominent opposition leaders attend Rahul Gandhi's Iftar party
India | Jun 13, 2018, 09:45 PM IST
This is the first Iftar party being organised by Rahul Gandhi as Congress President.

'Mahagathbandhan is a sentiment of people, whole nation is united against RSS and BJP,' says Rahul Gandhi
India | Jun 13, 2018, 11:04 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi also alleged that present Narendra Modi government is working for the rich of the country.
Congress party has always misled OBC community for vote bank politics: BJP
India | Jun 13, 2018, 07:00 AM IST
"If Rahul Gandhi is seriously interested in the upliftment of OBC community then he must answer that whether he is ready to give them constitutional status or not?" asked BJP MP Ram Kripal.
'Ekalavya cut off right thumb on Guru's demand, BJP leaders cut down Gurus': Rahul attacks PM Modi
National | Jun 13, 2018, 12:04 AM IST
Referring to senior BJP leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Jaswant Singh, the Gandhi scion tweeted a video, taking a dig at the prime minister.

'I was the first person to meet ailing Vajpayee at AIIMS': Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at PM Modi
National | Jun 12, 2018, 07:37 PM IST
Targeting Modi, Rahul alleged that the prime minister has not treated his "guru" Advani well after becoming the prime minister of the country.
Kurukshetra | Is Rahul Gandhi playing politics by saying 'I was the first to visit ailing Vajpayee'?
National | Jun 12, 2018, 07:42 PM IST
Targeting Modi, Rahul alleged that the prime minister did not treat his "guru" Advani well after becoming the prime minister of the country.
Special treatment given to Rahul: RSS worker who filed defamation case against Cong president
India | Jun 12, 2018, 02:30 PM IST
A Bhiwandi court on Tuesday framed charges against Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed against him by a RSS worker in 2014.
Rahul Gandhi slams Modi; dares BJP, RSS to slap cases against him
India | Jun 12, 2018, 01:04 PM IST
Gandhi, who appeared before a court in Bhiwandi town here in connection with a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker.
RSS defamation case: Rahul Gandhi pleads 'not guilty', court frames charges against him
India | Jun 12, 2018, 12:02 PM IST
Case was filed following Gandhi's utterances at a rally in Thane in March 2014 in which he had accused the RSS of killing Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation.